Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event . n didtliey make a bold stand, when his party was driven back,overcome by numbers. Captain Boling was silent for sometime, and then said: Perhaps after all I have done these Indians injustice in callingthem cowards; probably theyfeel that they are not calledupon to fight and lose any oftlieir braves, when by strategythey can foil and elude nature is about alikein war as in other things; it isgoverned by what it conceivesto be its interest. There were in tlie countrywe passed over, some beau-tiful mountain
Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event . n didtliey make a bold stand, when his party was driven back,overcome by numbers. Captain Boling was silent for sometime, and then said: Perhaps after all I have done these Indians injustice in callingthem cowards; probably theyfeel that they are not calledupon to fight and lose any oftlieir braves, when by strategythey can foil and elude nature is about alikein war as in other things; it isgoverned by what it conceivesto be its interest. There were in tlie countrywe passed over, some beau-tiful mountain meadows andmost luxuriant forests, andi^ome of the sloping table landslooked like the ornamentalparks of an extensive oak - clad tables and^^?^^^ ridges, were the harvest fieldsof the San Joaquin Indians,and in their vicinity we foundan occasional group of huts. These, with theiradjacent supplies of acorns, were at once given to the acorns found and destroyed by the scouting parties,were variously estimated at from eight hundred toonethou-9. CACHES OR INDIAN ACORNSTOREHOUSES. 130 DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE, sand bushels; beside the supply of Pifion pine-nuts andother supplies hoarded for future use. The pine-nuts werenot all destroyed by fire; most of them were confiscated,and served as a dessert to many a roast. From the total amount of acorns estimated to have beendestroyed, their supplies were comparatively small, or thenumber of Indians on the San Joaquin had been, as inother localities, vastly overrated. Our search was thor-oughly made—the explorations from day to day, extend-ing from our camps over the whole country to an altitudeabove the growth of the oaks. During these expeditions,not ah Indian was seen after those noticed on the upperSan Joaquin; but fresh signs were often discovered andfollowed, only to be traced to the rocky canons abovewhere, like deceptive •? ignes fatui^ they disappeared. Being allowed the largest liberty as s
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